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Revolving restaurant
Revolving restaurant: rotating dining room on a turntable platform, first realized at Dortmund's Florianturm (1959), brought to the US by John Graham's La Ronde (1961); only the annular dining floor turns, about one rotation per hour.
Rhône wine
Rhône wine comes from the Rhône Valley of southeastern France, split into a Syrah-based continental north (about 5% of output) and a Grenache-blend Mediterranean south (95%), under a tiered appellation hierarchy.
Rib eye steak
Rib eye steak: beef steak from the rib primal built around the longissimus dorsi muscle, prized for heavy marbling, USDA Prime/Choice grading at the 12th rib, dry-heat cooking, and top consumer palatability scores.
Ribena
Ribena is a British blackcurrant soft drink brand launched in 1938 by Dr Vernon Charley, named from Ribes nigrum, given free to children as a WWII vitamin C supplement, made at Coleford since 1947, and owned by Suntory since 2013.
Ricard (liqueur)
Ricard is a French pastis, an anise and licorice aperitif created by Paul Ricard in Marseille in 1932, bottled at 45% ABV, diluted with water, and now owned by Pernod Ricard after the 1975 merger.
Rice bran wax
Rice bran wax, a vegetable wax from rice milling byproduct, is a US-approved food additive (21 CFR 172.890) used as candy and produce coating, gum plasticizer, and oil gelling agent; FDA had no questions on GRN 720.
Rice cooker
Rice cooker (炊飯器, automatic electric rice cooker): countertop appliance cooking rice by absorption and switching to keep-warm automatically. First electric model 1923 (Mitsubishi, marine use); first automatic home model Toshiba ER-4, 1955; tiers are mechanical, micom/fuzzy logic, induction heating, and pressure-IH.
Richard and Maurice McDonald
Richard (Dick) and Maurice (Mac) McDonald, New Hampshire-born brothers, founded McDonald's Bar-B-Que in San Bernardino in 1940 and invented the 1948 Speedee Service System, the assembly-line, self-service fast-food model, before selling the name and system to Ray Kroc for $2.7 million in 1961.
Richard Blais
Richard Blais, American chef and TV personality, winner of Top Chef All-Stars (season 8) and co-host of Fox's Next Level Chef; trained at el Bulli and The French Laundry, founder of Trail Blais, author of Try This at Home.
Richard Montañez
Richard Montañez, former PepsiCo vice president of multicultural sales, claims he invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos as a Frito-Lay janitor; Frito-Lay and a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation dispute the claim, and his 2024 lawsuit was struck under anti-SLAPP with leave to amend.
Richard Paterson
Richard Paterson (Glasgow, 1949), 'The Nose', is a Scottish master blender of Scotch whisky: third-generation, Whyte & Mackay chief blender from 1975, five decades behind The Dalmore, Shackleton whisky re-creator, OBE, later co-founder of Wolfcraig Distillers.
Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless, American chef and restaurateur of regional Mexican cuisine; Frontera Grill (1987), Topolobampo, XOCO, Bar Sótano in Chicago; James Beard Outstanding Chef 1995, Top Chef Masters 2009 winner.
Rick Stein
Rick Stein (born 1947 as Christopher Richard Stein) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television presenter known for simply cooked seafood and The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, Cornwall.
Ricky Lauren
Ricky Lauren (Ricky Ann Loew-Beer), American author, photographer, artist, and psychotherapist, wife of designer Ralph Lauren since 1964; wrote Safari, My Island, Double RL Ranch, and The Hamptons: Food, Family, and History (2012, reissued 2025).
Ricotta
Ricotta is a fresh Italian acid/heat-coagulated whey cheese made by heating whey (80–90 °C) with acid to recover whey proteins; 'Ricotta Romana' is a sheep-whey PDO from Lazio with at least 40% fat in dry matter.
Riesling
Riesling, also known as White Riesling or Rhine Riesling, is a white wine grape of German origin, prized for high acidity and wines from bone dry to sweet.
Right to food
The right to food is a human right, enshrined in ICESCR Article 11 (1966) and UDHR Article 25, binding for 172 states, obliging respect, protection, and fulfillment of adequate food access.
Rijsttafel
Rijsttafel ("rice table") is a Dutch-Indonesian feast of many small Indonesian dishes served around rice, created by Dutch colonists in the Dutch East Indies, brought to the Netherlands after 1949, and now listed as Dutch intangible cultural heritage.
Risotto
Risotto, best known as risotto alla milanese with saffron, is a northern Italian dish of short-grain Arborio, Carnaroli, or Vialone Nano rice cooked with gradually added, stirred-in stock until released starch makes it creamy, first documented around 1809.
Rissole
Rissole (French rissole, from Late Latin russeola "reddish"): a small fried or baked food. In France a filled pastry turnover (meat, fish, or fruit); in English usage a minced-meat patty; variants include Portuguese rissóis, Brazilian risoles, and Indonesian risoles.
Ristretto
Ristretto (Italian for "restricted") is a short espresso shot pulled at roughly a 1:1 coffee-to-yield ratio, about 15-20 mL in 15-20 seconds; sweeter, more concentrated, and lower in total caffeine than a standard 1:2 espresso, the opposite of a lungo.
Ritter Sport
Ritter Sport is a German family-owned chocolate brand (Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG), founded 1912, known for square bars, colorful packaging, 100% Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa since 2018, and 712 million euros in 2025 sales.
Ritz Crackers
Ritz Crackers, also RITZ, is a round buttery snack cracker brand introduced by Nabisco in 1934 and owned by Mondelēz International; seven perforations, scalloped edge, once 29 million baked daily.
RJR Nabisco
RJR Nabisco (R.J.R. Nabisco, Inc.), the 1985 tobacco-food conglomerate formed by R.J. Reynolds' $4.9 billion purchase of Nabisco Brands, taken private by KKR in 1988-1989 in the then-largest leveraged buyout, about $25-26 billion, and split apart in 1999.
Roast chicken
Roast chicken: a whole chicken cooked by dry heat in an oven, over fire, or on a spit. Key facts: USDA safe internal temperature 165 °F, spatchcocking for even cooking, dry brining, and the British Sunday roast tradition.
Roasting
Roasting is a dry-heat cooking method, using hot air in an oven or open flame at 150 °C or higher, applied to meats, vegetables, coffee, and nuts.
Robert Irvine
Robert Irvine (born 1965), English-American chef and TV host of Food Network's Restaurant: Impossible and Dinner: Impossible; survived a 2008 resume-fabrication scandal; runs FitCrunch and the Robert Irvine Foundation.
Robert Kuok (郭鹤年)
Robert Kuok (郭鹤年, born 1923, Johor Bahru) is a Malaysian tycoon, founder of the Kuok Group, the "Sugar King of Asia," and creator of the Shangri-La hotel chain, with holdings in Wilmar, Kerry Properties, and former owner of the South China Morning Post.
Rocco DiSpirito
Rocco DiSpirito (born 1966) is an Italian-American New York chef, author of 14 cookbooks including three NYT bestsellers, James Beard winner for Flavor, star of NBC's The Restaurant, and chef of Union Pacific, Standard Grill, and Bar Rocco.
Rock candy
Rock candy, also called rock sugar (冰糖, 氷砂糖, Mishri), is crystallized sucrose grown as large crystals from a supersaturated sugar solution on strings or sticks over days to weeks, used as candy and sweetener.